Debuting in 1927, black comic character actor Lincoln Perry portrayed the offensively mumbling, shuffling sidekick -- billed "The Laziest Man in the World" -- in countless films and is often considered the first African-American to have a true career in Hollywood. PS, 4¼" X 5½", n.p., n.d. [ca. 1965]. Very..... More
Gamblers, prospectors and romantic Gold Rush characters galore populate the short stories of this American author, poet, playwright, critic and essayist -- "The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches" (1870) the best known of them. Choice and bold "Yours very truly / Bret Harte / New York, June 8th..... More
Although this American engineer designed such high-profile projects as the base for the Statue of Liberty in New York, it's as a novelist and short story writer who often illustrated his own books that he is best known. ALS (initials),1p, 8½" X 11", New York, NY, 25 May 1888. Addressed..... More